ION 2 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking22not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation29.85no data
Power efficiency16.03no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameNavi 21GT218
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)3 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512016
Core clock speed1825 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed2250 MHzno data
Number of transistors26,800 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate720.04.000
Floating-point processing power23.04 TFLOPS0.03424 TFLOPS
ROPs1284
TMUs3208
Ray Tracing Cores80no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width3-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.54.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.11.1
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2020 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 7 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 20 Watt

RX 6900 XT has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

ION 2, on the other hand, has 1400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6900 XT and ION 2. We've got no test results to judge.


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